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CDF President Marian Wright Edelman (center) and Keri Russell (right) talk with Anna (in red chair) in DC. Marian Wright Edelman said that CDF and it's coalition share a history for standing up for the voiceless. They "are the voice" for children's health in American and will be heard loud and clear in 2009.
Anna had been deaf from birth. She and her family are learning sign language. They NEED the CDF voice, they need health care, they need us to care, to follow these issues and speak to our congressional representatives in support of their needs.
"On Mother’s Day, a group of prominent Hollywood women––including Jessica Alba, Regina King, Keri Russell, Jurnee Smollett, Ali Wentworth and others―joined Children’s Defense Fund President Marian Wright Edelman and Michelle Fenty, attorney and Washington, DC, First Lady, on a children’s health reform Child Watch day in Washington, DC.
They were joined by families from Texas, Virginia and Montana who spoke about the struggles they’ve faced trying to get their children the health coverage they need.
The group conducted a CDF Child Watch visit to the Unity Health Care Upper Cardozo Clinic in Columbia Heights, where they met children at the clinic and held a roundtable discussion with health care providers and working families from across the country about the difficulties in accessing quality affordable health care for their children. The women shared these experiences when they met administration officials and Congressional leaders later in the day to ask for guaranteed quality affordable health care for all children as part of the health reform legislation being drafted this month." Quoted from May 2009 Mother's Day Child Watch, one photo set including pictures of Anna.
Below is my slideshow with four photos including Anna. I saved them from the CDF Flickr site. Amy Sage is on the far left, Anna is in the red chair, Marian Wright Edleman is right of Anna, then Keri Russell in yellow and Jessica Alba on the far right.
Here is another Flickr photo set with Anna - Jess Alba / Keri Russell
Jessica Alba / Keri Russell Health Center For a slideshow visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/wumpiewoo/sets/72157617757917749/show/
Text from Flickr:
A group of female Hollywood celebrities and other prominent women came to Unity Health Care in Columbia Heights to speak with mothers of pediatric patients who have faced serious difficulties receiving health care. After an open discussion with three mothers from Texas, Montana, and Virginia, these celebrities travelled to Capitol Hill to advocate on behalf of expanding healthcare benefits for children including the Children's Health Insurance Program.
The following women that attended are members of the Children's Defense Fund...Jessica Alba, Keri Russell, Regina King, Marian Wright-Edelman (Founder of Children's Defense Fund), Jurnee Smollett, Malaak Compton-Rock (Chris Rock's wife), Ali Wentworth (Actress, Wife of George Stephanolpoulos), Michelle Fenty.
I thank all of these remarkable women and I thank you for your support, too.
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